Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTONThe more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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